İYİ Party

İYİ (Good) Party Chair Meral Akşener has vowed to continue her fight unshakably to promote women's right in every field of life.

"I will never quit my struggle even if death awaits me at the very end and I am left alone. This is the promise of a Muslim Turkish woman," Akşener told her parliamentary group on March 10 as she devoted her weekly address to International Women's Day.

A nationwide debate has been sparked over Istanbul Metropolitan Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu's Twitter post in which he tagged İYİ (Good) Party Chair Meral Akşener and Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair Pervin Buldan while marking International Women's Day.

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on March 6 criticized an investigation opened against the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) by the Supreme Court of Appeals Prosecutor's office.

Istanbul Deputy Ümit Özdağ, a long-term dissident of the İYİ (Good) Party, has announced his resignation from the party after he accused İYİ Party Chair Meral Akşener of cooperating with the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and of acting as a satellite party of the Republican People's Party (CHP).

The İYİ (Good) Party will not automatically vote in favor of the removal of the immunities of the parliament members from the ranks of the People's Democratic Party (HDP), İYİ Party Chairwoman Meral Akşener has said, stressing that her party would advocate the truth and not support a political show.

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli on March 2 reiterated his call for the closure of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).

He also urged the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) and İYİ (Good) Party to "clarify" their positions for the summary of proceedings prepared to lift the immunity of HDP MPs.

The struggle against terror is not merely killing terror group members, but also other means of fighting should be carried out in this process, the main opposition party leader has said, questioning the government's way of fighting against the illegal PKK group.

Good (İYİ) Party is in favor to decrease national election threshold from 10 percent to 5 percent, İYİ Party Chair Meral Akşener has said amid reports on a government-led study to amend the Election Law.

"We are in favor of 5 percent [election] threshold, but I have no idea what Mr. Bahçeli has in mind regarding the election threshold," Akşener told reporters in Ankara late Jan. 21,

An early election is inevitable in Turkey, the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, said on Jan. 18, reiterating the opposition argument that citizens want snap elections due to their economic problems.

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli has renewed his call on İYİ (Good) Party chair Meral Akşener to break with the opposition Nation's Alliance and return to her "home," meaning the MHP.

"There is still time, our suggestion is still valid. Return home, this ordeal will end," Bahçeli said during the MHP'S provincial heads meeting on Dec. 24.